DISCLAIMER: Primeval was created by Adrian Hodges and Tim Haines. I do not own Primeval, I only own the new team.

A/N: Thanks to all who are still following the series. Hope you like the reference to episode 5.1.

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Chapter 2

It was a busy day at the ARC, Lester was receiving his peerage, and the ARC teams were to be security at King Charles' Palace Garden Party; that meant two things, first, tensions all-round the ARC were high, and second they two core teams had to be in dress uniform. The dress uniform was made up of black V-neck jumper, black trousers, black boots, white shirt, coloured tie and a black police-style cap.

James Lester was stood in his office, in his Italian Evening suit, with Captain Becker. The two were arguing because Becker didn't see why they couldn't use a Tank.

"Captain, I appreciate your fond of the ARC International Tanks, especially…What did you call it…Lucy" Lester sighed, "But we can't use a tank near the royal family!"

"I don't know why, Lucy is perfectly well behaved" Becker replied before thinking, "Apart from that time Connor blew up the Menagerie's perimeter wall."

"You make the tank sound like a pet" Lester sighed, he didn't really have time for this argument, but he couldn't let Becker turn up in a tank, especially a tank he'd named Lucy.

"I don't talk about Lucy like a pet" Becker complained.

"Enough, you can't use a tank!" Lester snapped, "Now if you'll excuse me I need to go and meet the king."

Becker huffed in defeat as he followed Lester out of the room, he hadn't heard Connor walking up to him.

"I take it he won't let you take Lucy then action man?" Connor asked, with a grin on his face, before placing his cap on his head before sprinting towards the car park.

"I don't understand what they have against Lucy" Becker sighed.

In the car park, Jess Becker was stood at the front of the broken down mobile command truck, she was holding an IPad and was starting to panic that they would be behind schedule. Next to her, Michelle Miller was in a similar state. The first fleet should have left five minutes ago but with the command centre blocking the exit, nobody would be going anyway. Underneath the Command Truck was Brian Parry, the ARC's resident mechanic, who was trying to get the bulky vehicle going again.

"Any luck?" Jess asked, glancing at her watch.

"The secondary battery is flat" Brian replied, he spoke with a very heavy welsh accent.

"Can't we just use the primary battery?" Jess asked, getting very impatient.

"Nope" The Welshman replied.

"Why?" Michelle asked.

"That's flat as well" Brian replied, "They'll take an hour to charge."

"We don't have an hour" Michelle panicked.

"Do we have spare batteries?" Abby asked. She had been sat in the SUV trying to get Connor and Nick to the car park on time, but seen as they were both ignoring her calls, she had given up. Until they got here that is, then she'd give them both a lecture on why they should answer their phones

"Yep, we have a spare primary and secondary" Brian replied, "And they're fully charged."

"Why didn't you suggest that earlier?" Jess asked.

"Nobody asked me" Brian replied, sliding out from under the truck before standing up, "Give me fifteen minutes and you'll be ready to go."

"Well hurry up!" Jess shouted, rubbing her temples.

"Everything complete?" Mercer asked as she and Kendall entered the Menagerie.

"The Neural Clamps are working as predicted Ma'am" Dr Fairweather reported, "They have all been programmed with specific targets."

"Excellent" Mercer smiled. Her plan was flowing smoothly.

"The creature teleportation in the clamps has been activated" Truman informed, "I've included a fail-safe, which will send the creatures back to own time, should anything go wrong."

"Good idea" Mercer nodded, "How does it work?"

"Only me and Dr Fairweather need to know" Truman replied.

"Why?" Mercer asked, slightly annoyed at been kept in the dark.

"Security Ma'am" Kendall replied.

"Of course" Mercer smiled, "Send the two T-rex and the Allosaurus down ASAP."

"Yes ma'am" Dr Fairweather nodded, typing on the touch screen.

"Kendall with me" Mercer instructed as she exited the room.

"Ma'am" Kendall saluted to Dr Fairweather and Truman, before leaving the room

2 hours later the mobile command centre drove through the main gate at Buckingham Palace; followed by ten SUV's. The gates swiftly closed behind them. A tall grey haired man approached the SUV that Matt and Nick arrived in. As he approached, the two team leaders left their vehicle and walked towards him.

"Mr Anderson" The man smiled, shaking Matt's hand.

"Sargent Ward" Matt nodded.

"Master Temple, his royal highness is waiting in the drawing room, go through the arch and go into the room with the patio doors" Sargent Ward informed.

"Okay" Nick nodded, before heading in the director the sergeant mentioned.

"Okay let's get your equipment set up" Sargent Ward nodded.

"Couldn't agree more" Matt replied, "Sorry about the wait, our command centre wouldn't start."

"It's fine, we've been behind schedule all morning" Ward smiled.

Four more SUV's stopped at the gate. They had the ARC logo on one side, and the Canadian flag on the other. The gate slowly opened and the SUV's entered the courtyard; Evan Cross stepped out of the first truck before joining Matt in front of Sargent Ward.

"Sorry about the delay" Evan sighed, "Leeds forgot to fuel the jet."

"That's fine, we're all running late today" Ward smiled, "You Naval team are the only ones on time."

"Okay, let's get this command centre up and running" Matt announced, signalling towards the security zone.

What are ARC International planning?

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